Seed-planter



(No Model.)

N. EVINGER.

SEED PLANTER. N 281,677. Patenged July 24, 1883.

WITNEISLSIES I IN VEJVTOR 3o arms or beams F of the drill-tubes G are UN TED STATES PATENT ()FFlClio NOAH EVINGEB, on TERBE HAUTE, INDIANA.

SEED-PLANTE-R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,677, dated July 24, 1883. Application filed December 20, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NOAH EVINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Terre drawings.

Figure l is a plan View. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a section on line 00 w, and Fig. dis a detail view of one of the wheels or rollers.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like letters of reference.

This invention relates to seeding-machines; and it consists more especially in the construction and arrangement of certain wheels or rollers, the objects and advantages ofwhich will be hereinafter fully set forth and specified. I

In the drawings hereto annexed, A represents the frame of a seeding-machine embody ing my improvements. Said frame supports near its front end a seed-box, B, having seeddropping mechanism of any suitable construc- 131011.

Secured on the rear side of the front piece of frame A is a plate, 0, notched and bent at its upper edge, so as to form loops or eyes D, toreceive a rod or .bar, E, upon which the hinged, as shown. The front ends of the said beams F are bifurcated, as shown, and fitted on either side of the loops D, by which lateral displacement of the drills is thus prevented. The rear ends of the drill-tubes are connected, .by cords or chains H, with a crankshaft, I, operated by a lever, J, by which the said drill-tubes may be simultaneously 1owered or raised outof the ground.

K is a transverse shaft, mounted in the sides of frame A, and carrying a' series of wheels or rollers, L, equal in number to the drills, in rear of which they are located. The

l5 is a longitudinal spring seat-bar mounted upon the seed-boxes B N, which are connected by said bar. The seat Q has a flanged shank, R, by which it is mounted upon the seat-bar '1 upon which it may thus be'adjusted longi tudinally.

The operation of my invention will be readily understood. When the seed-box B is emand to form a furrow, protecting the seed andenabling it to grow more readily. 'When the seed-box N is used for sowing grass or clover seed in unprepared land, the rollers L, in ad vance of the seed-box, form recesses or de pressions in the ground to receive the seed,

which is readily retained in said recesses withbifurcated front ends hinged upon the rod E,

straddling the loops D, as set forth.

, 2. In a seed-planter and grain-drill,-the combination, with the hopper and drill-tubes, of the herein-described wheels or rollers L, having V-shaped edges, serrated, so as to form a circumferential series of pyramidal points, asset forth.

3. The combination, with the seed-boxes B N and the drill-tubes, of the intermediate transverse shaft, K, having wheels or rollers L, provided with pyramidalpoints, asand for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NOAH. EVINGER.

WVitnesses: JO N B. JOHNSON, Q W. B. RHODEN.

The machine is simple in con 

